John Grisham Gets the Last Laugh on the Law

John Grisham, who has penned bestsellers that deal with mob lawyers, hate crimes, and the death penalty, wants readers to know that the law also can be funny.

Grisham’s latest book, “The Litigators,” released this week, is written with a lighter touch than some of his previous blockbusters. The new novel tells the story of lawyers at an ambulance-chasing Chicago law firm. “Finley & Figg’s scam was hustling injury cases, a daily grind that required little skill or creativity and would never be considered cool or sexy…It was selective only because no one wanted to work there, including the two men who owned it,” Grisham writes in the book’s opening pages.

Publishers Weekly called “The Litigators” “a bitingly farcical look at lawyers at the bottom of the food chain.” The Washington Post wrote “To these tragicomic proceedings, Grisham brings his usual nuanced understanding of tort law and civil jurisprudence…”